Messaging to Reduce Booster Hesitancy among the Fully Vaccinated.

Vaccine hesitancy was a serious problem in the United States throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, due in part to the reduction in public trust in science that accompanied the pandemic. Now we are facing a new, similar but more extensive problem: booster hesitancy. Even fewer Americans are current on the mRNA booster.

The impact of probabilistic tornado warnings on risk perceptions and responses.

Many warnings issued to members of the public are deterministic in that they do not include event likelihood information. This is true of the current polygon-based tornado warning used by the American National Weather Service, although the likelihood of a tornado varies within the boundaries of the polygon. To test whether adding likelihood information benefits end users, two experimental studies and one in-person interview study were conducted.

Brain cortical assessment by MRI in fetuses with left congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Objective: To evaluate fetal brain development using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) in CDH (congenital diaphragmatic hernia).

Methods: 52 isolated left CDH and 104 control fetuses were imaged using MRI. Brain morphometry (Biparietal diameter-BPD, brain fronto-occipital diameter-BFOD, third ventricle, posterior ventricles, transcerebellar diameter-TCD, anteroposterior and craniocaudal cerebellar vermis diameter-AP and CC) and cortical structures (bilateral cingulate fissure-CF, insular fissure-IF, insular depth - ID) were compared with controls using Mann-Whitney test.

COVID-19: Risk perception, risk communication, and behavioral intentions.

Critical to limiting the spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and future pandemics is compliance with behavioral recommendations such as mask wearing and social distancing. Compliance may depend upon understanding the seriousness of the health consequences and the likelihood they will occur. However, the statistics that speak to these issues in an ongoing pandemic are complex and may be misunderstood.